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The News Casino operators and sports betting companies have spent record amounts on campaign donations and on lobbying in Washington thus far this year, hoping it will help win back millions of bettors and gambling dollars that prediction markets have lured away. Sportsbook opera

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow takes a look at OpenAI's potential fundraising at a staggering $1.25 trillion valuation. Plus, Anthropic's looming IPO could deliver blockbuster gains for some of its biggest investors, with billions of dollars on the line. And, SpaceX is taking another step

Xona – a startup working to improve GPS with a new purpose-built commercial satellite navigation network – has raised $250 million at a $2.45 billion valuation. Xona CEO and co-founder Brian Manning discusses the difference the company’s smaller, more scalable satellites make, it

Hurricane Vance is expected to steadily intensify in the next 24 hours and turn into a major hurricane by Friday night, according to projections from the National Hurricane Center. “Swells generated by Vance are expected to begin affecting portions of the coast of southern and so

Anthropic’s upcoming public listing is poised to create multibillion-dollar gains for top venture capital firms, tech companies and independent investors that have backed the company. Bloomberg’s Natasha Mascarenhas explains why many of the investors raking in huge paydays won’t

Artificial Intelligence Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning on Amazon SageMaker AI: A hands-on guide Most fine-tuning teaches a model to produce a better answer to a single prompt. Agentic tasks are different. An agent that files an expense report or triages a support ticket takes

ideaForge Technology terminates US joint venture agreement with First Breach - Published OnOct 23, 2026 | 23:16 IST - Last Updated OnOct 23, 2026 | 23:18 IST Drone company ideaForge Technology has terminated its US joint venture agreement with First Breach Inc. because the deal f

A new GPS app for girls reached the U.S. Navigation Top 100 within its first month

Sebi orders Avadhut Sathe Trading Academy to refund ₹546 cr; imposes ₹11.5 cr penalty - Published OnOct 23, 2026 | 23:11 IST - Last Updated OnOct 23, 2026 | 23:11 IST Sebi ordered Avadhut Sathe Trading Academy and its founder to refund Rs 546.17 crore collected from unregistered

As the race for control of Congress enters its final days, 2WAY is teaming up with NewsNation and The Hill for another special edition of “The Morning Meeting” ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections on Sunday, Oct. 25. These special midterm editions of The Morning Meeting are pres

A federal appeals court on Friday ruled 2-1 that President Trump’s National Guard deployment to the Los Angeles area last year was unlawful. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected Trump’s assertion that violent demonstrations in the city protesting his immigration

Much of what we know about how a brain makes decisions comes from studying monkeys watching dots. In a task known as a random-dot-motion task, a cloud of flickering specks drifts weakly in one direction while the subject tries to determine whether—and in which direction— it’s mov

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and wife to Great Britain's Prince Harry, has addressed the accusations against her father, who is being investigated over alleged possession of child sexual abuse material. Meghan said she was “deeply distressed” by the news concerning 82-year-old Thoma

The Scoop Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign is launching a new TV ad with a unique approach: spotlighting conservative pundits’ praise for the progressive — and criticism of GOP nominee Mike Rogers. The new ad will get a six-figure buy, according to de

The Global Performance Tuner is a feature for automatic performance tuning released in NVIDIA TensorRT 11.1. It provides automatic, accuracy-aware and end-to-end performance tuning within TensorRT by customizing different optimizations for different models. For more details, see

Meghan statement offers answers after years of questions about her relationship with father - Published Before today's allegations and the statement from the Duchess of Sussex there was not much at all between Meghan and her father. Quite when the duchess last saw her father Thom

Deploying a trained neural network involves more than translating each operator into a GPU kernel. It is a compilation problem with many legitimate answers. For example, when NVIDIA TensorRT builds an engine, it makes interdependent decisions about graph-IR transformations, fusio

Trump says Burnham 'getting it done' after Jackdaw decision - Published US President Donald Trump has praised Prime Minister Andy Burnham for the UK government's decision to approve production from the North Sea's Jackdaw gas field. He said he had spoken with Burnham, telling rep

The move came a day after the 10-year yield recorded its steepest one day fall in nearly four years, as investors sought safer assets amid renewed concerns around AI related stocks. The yield had dropped 19.3 basis points on Thursday, its biggest daily decline since March 10, 202

DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash 1017 Tops Public Cybersecurity Rankings at $0.42 per Task DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 tops the Artificial Analysis Cyber Index among open models, with zero safety refusals and a 53 point jump on CyberGym-E2E-AA. - DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 scores 57% on the Arti

Reliance Jio IPO vs Hyundai IPO vs NSE IPO: Jio Platforms initial public offering closed on Friday with bumper subscription. Backed by Reliance Industries Limited, Jio IPO was subscribed 22.19x by the end of third day of subscription. Jio Platforms is all set to become India’s bi

US chip champion Intel was so confused by the US government ban on foreign-made robots that it requested and received a waiver “out of an abundance of caution.” The tech company wanted to make sure that it could continue using certain robotic vehicles in its US chip fabs. The unc

Moonshot AI, the Chinese upstart that had its own DeepSeek moment over the summer, released the first major upgrade to the seminal model that thrust the $50 billion company into the frontier.

India’s largest IPO to record investor demand: 10 milestones that made Jio’s IPO a blockbuster - Published OnOct 23, 2026 | 22:47 IST - Last Updated OnOct 23, 2026 | 22:47 IST Jio Platforms' ₹30,188-crore public offering became India's largest and fastest fully subscribed IPO, at

Silicon Valley has decided to build a better dog. Warhound, a new defense technology company, has launched with $200 million in seed funding from investors including Sequoia Capital to create dogs genetically engineered for military use. The company is a collab between Anduril an

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has imposed penalties totalling ₹11.5 crore on Avadhut Sathe Trading Academy Pvt. Ltd (ASTAPL) and its directors, and barred them from accessing the securities markets for periods of up to two years for providing unregistered inve

Bharat Petroleum’s revenues spurred 29% whilst net profit declined 22.5% on a year-over-year basis in Q2

Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro Challenges Claude With 2.8 Trillion Parameters Moonshot's 2.8T parameter MoE now runs full Unreal projects, parametric CAD, and finance modeling with 65% fewer hallucinations. - Moonshot released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8T total / 104B active MoE with 1M-token

Apple’s foldable phone is finally here. It has some first-generation quirks, but Chris Welch says it’s the most fun he’s had with an iPhone in a long time—if you’re ready to commit to the fold (Source: Bloomberg)

The company’s first foldable is impressive, but the app ecosystem needs to catch up.

Leaked confidential data. A major stock sell-off. Beneath the chaos surrounding Moderna and Merck's latest data on their personalized cancer vaccine, oncologists see something else: an important milestone in melanoma treatment. The companies on Thursday released detailed results

September-quarter revenue climbs 53.6% to ₹6,171 crore; fresh order intake doubles year-on-year to $1.04 billion as company raises FY27 EBIT margin guidance to 16%

Featured Story T-Mobile makes first AI-RAN call with Nokia and Nvidia T-Mobile takes strides in AI-RAN with the first call with Nokia and Nvidia, and performance gains with Ericsson's AI beamforming. gFiber is stepping in to rescue Ting Fiber's dark fiber network lease in Colorad

Two former FBI officials are facing charges for lying to Congress about their involvement in the agency’s investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop. Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, who worked in the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) in 2019 and 2020, were taken into cu

The bank’s bottom line for Q2FY27 was supported by a rise in net interest income, which stood at ₹4,569 crore as against ₹4,409 crores a year ago

LlamaIndex's OCRia-1 Parses PDFs 75x Faster Than Gemini at a Third the Cost LlamaIndex's new 4B vision-language model tops ParseBench by 12 points and parses a typical page in 0.2 seconds, available now on OpenDocRouter. - LlamaIndex released OCRia-1, a 4B VLM scoring 87.4 on Par

Liquid AI's d1.1 Cuts Decision Costs to $0.02 per Million Tokens Liquid AI's d1.1 narrows the gap to d1-ultra while cutting cost by more than half, keeping input-only billing at $0.02 per million tokens. - Liquid AI released d1.1, upgrading its decision model line between d1 and

Lemon Tree Hotels signs 63-room Keys Lite property in Bhilwara, Rajasthan - Published OnOct 23, 2026 | 22:31 IST - Last Updated OnOct 23, 2026 | 22:31 IST Lemon Tree Hotels has signed a 63-room Keys Lite property in Bhilwara, Rajasthan, managed by Carnation Hotels. Featuring a re

Replit Acquires ChromaDB and Shuts Down Chroma Cloud in 60 Days Replit is acquiring the vector database maker to build what both companies call the context layer for autonomous enterprise agents. - Replit is acquiring Chroma, the open source vector database used widely for RAG, t

Today we are looking at our second NVIDIA DGX Station-powered system with MSI’s XpertStation WS300. These NVIDIA GB300-based systems bring NVIDIA’s server-grade hardware to a desk-side computer for the first time, letting developers and other workstation users test and run progra

We gave the iPhone Duo a 7 /10. But that wasn’t always the score we planned, and it might not be the right score forever. Such are the challenges of reviewing — and assessing — a big, new idea about the most popular smartphone in history. The iPhone Duo should have been an iPad O

The new game Final Fantasy Resonance is a brilliant throwback to the franchise’s past

Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! This week marks a new era for Stratechery, which is now presented by Stripe. I’m excited about what this partnership can unlock, starting with in-person on-video episodes of Sharp Tech. Check out the YouTube video above (or watch it on St

Tencent Opens Hy-Nomas, an Interactive Video World Model Running on One RTX 4090 Tencent's Hunyuan team released Hy-Nomas, an open source interactive video world model with text and camera control that runs on a single RTX 4090. - Tencent Hunyuan released Hy-Nomas, an open-source

Periodic Labour Force Survey will include additional questions to measure labour underutilisation

At a recent meeting of the board that oversees the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center Research Hospital, chair Jack Leslie opened with cheerful introductions and gregarious chatter—then diverted from the agenda of the regularly scheduled meeting. He spent the next si

Google has updated its privacy policy in a way that could mean you’ll start seeing targeted ads based on your personal data if you’re using personalized AI features. The update, spotted by Android Authority, adds an exception to its promise about not using your Drive, Gmail, or G

The New York Knicks organization sent employees a phishing email promising free championship rings in a test of its staff’s ability to detect scams, The New York Times reported yesterday. “Congratulations, your Employee Championship Ring is here,” the email sent in late September

The anchor book saw participation from marquee global institutional investors, including Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds managed by Norges Bank Investment Management, and global asset manager Schroders. Other long-only fo

GE Shipping to buy 82,000-cbm gas carrier as fleet expansion gathers pace - Published OnOct 23, 2026 | 22:20 IST - Last Updated OnOct 23, 2026 | 22:20 IST GE Shipping has contracted to acquire a secondhand 82,000-cbm gas carrier, funded through internal accruals and expected to j